مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد شهر هوشمند و اینترنت اشیا – الزویر 2017

We are very happy to publish this special issue of a Future Generation Computer Systems published by Elsevier. This issue contains 29 articles come from various countries, among which we mention Malaysia, Taiwan, Spain, France, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, USA, United Kingdom, Korea and Austria. Achieving such a high quality of papers would have been impossible without the huge work that was undertaken by the Editorial Board members and External Reviewers. We take this opportunity to thank them for their great support and cooperation. Smart City and Internet of Things (IoT) special issue is focused on the various aspects of advances in Smart City and IoT. The IoT general architecture provide the media to be everywhere incorporating transparently and seamlessly a large number of different and heterogeneous end systems and sensors to provide services that employ very complex tasks. Thus it is has become one of the most widely applicable technology of the digital age, driving major changes across industries from smart grids to connected health. However, the market analysis1 indicates clearly that Smart Cities and Smart Home stand out as the most prominent IoT applications. Obviously this driven by the decline of sensors cost and the cities management will to transition towards the real-time data-driven management across urban systems, including efficiently managing water, energy, waste, and transportation among other city-wide and home based services. There are many examples that we can spot on such applications that was the result of careful research (e.g. Padova, Italy Smart City system [1], City of Tokyo [2]). Cities continue to attract new people and by 2030 the UN estimates that than 60 percent of the global population is expected to live in large cities2 . With nearly 38 million people, Tokyo tops UN’s ranking of most populous cities followed by Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City, São Paulo and Mumbai. The consequences and challenges for such vast increase in population on the city resources and services are more than obvious. The only viable solution is to confront this problem by developing techniques to reduce resource consumption of the city in smart and intelligent way. Fig. 1 illustrates the most important techniques currently available for solving parts of the problem along with the future challenges that remain to be solved.